Every weekday 1pm in Chambers 3155. One film screening Thursday 3:15pm, Chambers 3155. The Davidson College Honor Code is binding for this course; pledge all work.
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Mon
7/6 |
- introductions
- what we know
- what we want to know
- what we need to know
- defining our project
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- brief précis (max 100 words) of Bartov and Hilberg
- one line questions raised for you by Nicholls, Wistrich essays, and both Wagner pieces
- timeline points
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- Hilberg mainly;
- Wistrich and Nicholls;
- your questions.
- Distill to basics.
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- précis for Burleigh and H. Friedlander (max 100 words each)
- timeline points
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| Wed |
- Burleigh
- Friedlander
- euthanasia
- Ich klage an (1941; dir. Wolfgang Liebeneiner; excerpt in class)
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- S. Friedlander, "The Externiation of European Jews in Historiography" (Bartov, 79-91);
- Aly, "The Planning Intelligentsia and the 'Final Solution'" (Bartov, 92-105);
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- précis for S. Friedlander and Aly (max 100 words each)
- timeline points
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- précis
- timeline points
- essay 1 assignment: As discussed in class today, choose a point, problem, statement, situation, argument, etc. of interest to you and explain why you find it worth thinking about. What is it about the problem you've chosen to discuss that is relevant for you and for us as a class. Remember you're writing for the class, not just for me. Your essay should be about 500 words. Everything 10 pt; double spaced; doc or docx format; no wacky fonts; title; name; date.
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- meaning of Wannsee
- essay 1 due via email to me by 6pm, or on paper by 5pm in the library
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Mon
7/13 |
- go over essay 1
- "Crimes of the Wehrmacht" images (I'll bring these to class)
- FILM: East of War (1996; dir. Ruth Beckermann; excerpts in class)
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- Klee, Dressen, Riess (eds.), "'Once again I've got to play general to the Jews': From the War Diary of Blutordensträger Felix Landau" (Bartov, 185-203)
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- perpetrators
- FILM: Hasenjagd (1994; dir. Andreas Gruber; excerpt in class)
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- Horwitz, "Places Far Away, Places So Near: Mauthausen, the Camps of the Shoah, and the Bystanders" (204-18);
- Crew on photography;
- [perhaps: Garton Ash on Lanzmann and Reitz]
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- Bystanders
- FILM: Shoah (1985; dir. Claude Lanzmann; excerpts in class)
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- Kovály, "Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968" (Bartov, 219-31)
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- Langer, "Redefining Heroic Behavior: The Impromptu Self and the Holocaust Experience" (Bartov, 235-50);
- essay 2 assignment here
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- others
- essay 2 due via email to me by 6pm, or on paper by 5pm in the library
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- Levi, "The Grey Zone" (Bartov, 251-272)
- Finkielkraut, "Remembering in Vain: The Klaus Barbie Trial and Crimes Against Humanity" (Bartov, 273-91)
- read everyone's essays and my comments, posted here by Sunday at 7pm.
- Tzvetan Todorov, "Exposures" on Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others.
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- précis
- opinions on your essays
- timeline points
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Mon
7/20 |
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- prep essay ideas
- timeline points
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- Spiegelman reception
- American contexts
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- essay questions
- timeline points
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| Wed |
- Spiegelman reception
- cultural studies and Holocaust studies
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- final essay: Connect Paul Celan's "Death Fugue" to another reading, image, idea, or point of interest for you in our course and discuss this connection in 500 words or so.
be sure to refer directly to both Celan's poem and to the other point of connection.
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- photograph and upload timeline
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- FILM in class: Resnais, Night and Fog (35 mins)
- Libeskind and Eisenman
- Celan
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- Celan connection essay emailed to me by Thursday night at 9pm
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- final essay presentations
five minutes each
- argument, , interpretations, evidence
- conclusions
- further questions
- [essays here]
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exit meetings with me morning 10-12:30 or afternoon (in my office, Carolina Inn 100).
- 10:15
- 10:30
- 10:45
- 11:00
- 11:15
- 11:30
- 11:45
- 12:00
- 3:15
- 3:30
- 3:45
- 4:00
- 4:15
- 4:30
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